Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Pink, sentence 35
She answered: ‘I have just eaten, and am still satisfied,’ for she thought the angels were there.
Who acts: mother, I, angels · What happens: answer, eat, be, think · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Pink. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, I, angels), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 answered | nsubj |
| 2 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 answered | punct |
| 4 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 eaten | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 eaten | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 eaten | aux |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 eaten | advmod |
| 8 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 answered | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 satisfied | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 satisfied | cc |
| 11 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 satisfied | cop |
| 12 | still | still | ADV | _ | 13 satisfied | advmod |
| 13 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 eaten | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 satisfied | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 eaten | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 thought | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 thought | nsubj |
| 18 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 eaten | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 angels | det |
| 20 | angels | angel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 there | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 there | cop |
| 22 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 thought | ccomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | mother | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | eat | present · perfect | I | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | I not said here | still | satisfied property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | mother | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | past | the angels | there property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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